[TheForge] jobs

[Andrew Vida]

ries wrote:

> Nope, we will never support 30% of the population again in 
> manufacturing- just like we wont see 85% of the population in 
> agriculture again- but we make an enormous amount of stuff, and we are 
> far from being just a service economy.

	But the drive is toward that.  Whether we end up that way is still an 
open question.  There are some crazy people out there who appear to 
sincerely believe that a future as a service economy is a good one.
> 
> Things could be a whole lot better- we could use a national 
> manufacturing policy, along with a national energy policy, two things 
> Bush and his cronies steadfastedly refused to consider as they borrowed 
> us dry for the forseeable future- but we are not dead yet, not by a far 
> cry.
> 
> I have seen manufacturing concerns around me spring up from nothing more 
> than smart people and good ideas, in a few years, to multi million 
> dollar industries, because we have such a good system to do business in- 
> we have better transparency of government, a better infrastructure, 
> better educated workers, and a more flexible environment to do business 
> in than almost any country in the world- lots of first world countries 
> take 6 months to get a business license.
> 
> I have a lot of faith in america.

	Well, I do too, but there is a large contingent of presumably well 
meaning people whose ideas are hurting us.  This is undeniable.  The USA 
moves further from laissez faire capitalism daily.  It is not a good thing.